Alabama Voices: ASU still focused on education

8:17 PM,
Jan. 11, 2013

Written by

Thomas Vocino

Since Nov. 26, when the Alabama State University board of trustees placed former President Dr. Joseph Silver on paid leave, the faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of the university have had to endure a near-constant barrage of negative publicity.

It has been an especially frustrating turn of events as ASU had been riding a crest of considerable good will associated with the opening of its new stadium Thanksgiving Day. Several weeks of non-specific charges of improprieties and denials of wrongdoing on the front and editorial pages of the Montgomery Advertiser and in lead stories ...